Llama 2 7B Chat
Llama 2 7B Chat is worth evaluating for classification and json / tool use when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating classification and json / tool use
- Workloads that can use a 4k context window
- Buyers comparing 4 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Family
- Llama 2
- Released
- 2023-07-18
- Context
- 4k
- Parameters
- 7B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2022-09
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open weights
- License
- Llama 2 CommunityCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Available
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
Large-scale open-source AI for social technologies.
Cheapest of 10 routes · DeepInfra
About
The Llama 2 7B Chat model is a fine-tuned variant of Meta's Llama 2 series, optimized for conversational AI applications. Built on an auto-regressive transformer architecture, it boasts 7 billion parameters and has been trained on a diverse dataset of 2 trillion tokens. The model underwent supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning with human feedback to enhance its performance in dialogue scenarios. It demonstrates competitive capabilities in terms of helpfulness and safety compared to both open-source and closed-source alternatives like ChatGPT and PaLM. Designed for commercial and research use, particularly in English language tasks, it's well-suited for developing chatbots, virtual assistants, and other interactive AI systems. More details can be found on its Hugging Face page .
Llama 2 7B Chat is an open-weight model in the Llama 2 family. The structured metadata tracks a 4k-token context window and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS, Baseten API, Fireworks AI, and 7 more, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.05 input and $0.25 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Llama 2 7B Chat yet.
Top use-case fit
Classification
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
JSON / Tool use
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 10Compare API pricing across 4 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepInfra | $0.070 | $0.070 | Serverless |
| Lepton AI API | $0.070 | $0.070 | Serverless |
| Fireworks AI | $0.200 | $0.200 | Provisioned |
| Together AI | $0.200 | $0.200 | Serverless |
Available via routers & gateways(14)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
AIRouter
RouterCommercial LLM router that analyzes incoming requests and routes to the optimal model for cost/quality/latency via a drop-in OpenAI-compatible API, with a privacy-preserving embedding mode that avoids sending prompt content.
Azure AI Foundry Model Router
RouterMicrosoft Azure AI Foundry's native model router that uses a trained ML model to route each prompt in real time to the optimal Azure-hosted model, with Balanced/Cost/Quality mode selection and automatic failover.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Classification
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Llama 2 7B Chat?
Llama 2 7B Chat has a context window of 4k tokens.
How much does Llama 2 7B Chat cost?
Llama 2 7B Chat pricing ranges from $0.05/1M to $0.52/1M input tokens depending on the provider.
When was Llama 2 7B Chat released?
Llama 2 7B Chat was released on 2023-07-18.
Which providers offer Llama 2 7B Chat?
Llama 2 7B Chat is available from 10 providers: Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS, Baseten API, Fireworks AI, Microsoft Foundry, GCP Vertex AI, Cloudflare Workers AI, DeepInfra, Lepton AI API, Together AI, Replicate API.
Large-scale open-source AI for social technologies.
Cheapest of 10 routes · DeepInfra